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How a new cooling panel can fix stubble burning challenge, save Delhi's air

The start-up, Green Screen developed during a course at Harvard University, which aimed at creating viable solutions to intractable problems facing developing countries, such as India

How effective is compensation for loss that human-wildlife conflict causes?

Wildlife is not limited to national parks and sanctuaries and knows no human-drawn boundaries

Underinvesting in health, education is now risking India's economic future

Human capital is a measure of the education and health levels in a population, expressed as the number of expected years lived between the age of 20 and 64

Rs 1,413: Avg monthly surplus for rural India is just enough to buy a fan

The poorest states by this measure were Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar

Juggling between work & breastfeeding setback for women in informal sector

The oft-cited solution to breastfeeding while working-expressed breastmilk-wasn't an option for working mothers as there are significant cultural barriers against pumping and expressing milk

Delhi's smoggy winter: 64% fine-particulate pollution comes from outside

During summers, 74% of Delhi's PM 2.5 pollution is caused by sources located outside Delhi

With 33% teaching posts vacant, Indian varsities continue to lag globally

Professors play a leading role in conducting academic research, apart from teaching duties but India is short of professors, with 5,606 posts vacant in central universities, a shortfall of 33%

Why Bengaluru's bus system is India's best and loses least money

Buses are the transit system of choice for the poorest commuters in Indian cities, but the losses they incur stem from a failure to raise fares

66% Working Indians earn less because of childhood stunting: World Bank

India's childhood stunting rate is one of the world's worst, surpassed only by Bangladesh (73%) and Afghanistan (67%)

India's shift to green economy could add 3 million jobs by 2030: Report

The 3.8 mn jobs created in renewable energy sector by 2030 could easily offset 259,000 jobs that could be lost by scaling down of carbon-intensive and resource-intensive industries, says an ILO report

For drug-hit Punjab, syringe ban a double-edged sword: Is there a fix?

On winning state assembly elections in March 2017, chief minister-designate Capt Amarinder Singh had claimed he would wipe out Punjab's drug problem "within four weeks"

This new drug could be a hope for mothers dying during childbirth

The ability of a drug to stanch bleeding is important, as India tries to improve on its 22% decline in maternal mortality ratio (MMR), from 167 in 2011-13 to 130 in 2014-16

Rs 3 per day: That's how much India spends for each Indian's health

Indians are the sixth biggest out-of-pocket (OOP) health spenders in the low-middle income group of 50 nations

64% rise in terror incidents in Kashmir during BJP-PDP rule, shows data

More than 70,000 terror incidents have been reported in J&K over the last 28 years ending 2017, in which 22,143 terrorists were killed and 13,976 civilians and 5,123 soldiers lost their lives

Despite same qualifications, Indian men get 30% more pay than women

Construction is the highest paying sector for women in rural areas while mining and quarrying is the highest paying sector for men, the data show

What's holding Indians back? Parents' income and education levels

The income of Indians is more dependent on their parents' income and educational levels, restricting their chances of rising above the socio-economic strata they are born in, says World Bank report

2.5% of GDP: India's annual economic loss due to degraded land in 2014-15

The estimated annual cost of land degradation will outstrip the cost of reclamation in 2030

What ails AIIMS? 97% of funds for 11 new institutions yet to be released

BJP claims to have set up two new AIIMS in 2017-18. The reality is that none of the 13 AIIMS announced by the NDA government is near completion

Diarrhoea took more lives in last 5 yrs than all other water-borne diseases

Uttar Pradesh recorded most diarrhoea deaths

With lower fertility rate, will south India lose out to north in finance?

In 2016, Tamil Nadu's total fertility rate-the number of children a woman will have in a lifetime-was the lowest among India's large states at 1.6